Breadcrumb Home Philosophy and Religion PHL 213 PHL 213: Early Modern Philosophy Download as PDF Class Program Philosophy and Religion Credits 3 Session Cycle Fall Only Yearly Cycle Every Year A historical survey of modern philosophy from Bacon to Kant. Major emphasis is placed upon the Rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza), Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley and Hume) and Kant's synthesis of those two traditions.